Etymologies

Examples

For Count Ville-Handry, acting under a kind of overexcitement, had that day lost all self-control, and forgot himself so far as to treat his daughter as no gentleman would have treated his child while in his senses, and that in the presence of his servants!

This union of fresh high spirits and amateur overexcitement leaves the door open to a certain type of enthusiast—whether from government, academia, the press, or think tanks—whom I call the “Emergency Man.”

Sure, the ego wants to please itself, but perversely it does so not by seeking out pleasure, which can cause it overexcitement, but by reducing unpleasure, which Freud defines as anything that throws the ego off course, upsetting its equilibrium.